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<br><br><H1 style="font: 26px arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Log analyzers Comparisons</H1>


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<font size=3 color=#665544><b>Comparison between AWStats and other famous statistics tools</b></font><br>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td width="33%" align=left><b>Features/Softwares</b></td><td width="14%"><b>AWStats</b></td><td width="13%"><b><a href="http://www.analog.cx" target="_blank">Analog</a></b></td><td width="15%"><b><a href="http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/" target="_blank">Webalizer</a></b></td><!-- <td width="12%"><b><a href="http://www.hitbox.com" target="_blank">HitBox</a></b></td>-->
  <td width="13%"><b><a href="http://www.sawmill.co.uk?ref=awstats" target="_blank">Sawmill Analytics</a></b><br></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Version - Date</td><td>6.5 - December 2005</td><td>6.0 - December 2004</td><td>2.01-10 - April 2002</td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td>7.2.15 - May 2008</td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Language</td><td>Perl</td><td>C</td><td>C</td><!-- <td>Embedded HTML tag</td> -->
  <td>C++/Salang</td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Available on all platforms</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Readable sources available</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#660000>No (obfuscated sources for compilation only)</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Price/Licence</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Free/GPL</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Free/GPL</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Free/GPL</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>Free with adverts/Proprietary</font></td> -->
  <td>From $99 Per Profile<br>
    <a href="http://www.sawmill.co.uk/pricing.html" target="_blank"><font style="font: 11px arial,helvetica,verdana">Lite/Pro/Ent</font></a></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Works with Apache combined (XLF/ELF)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Works with Apache common (CLF) log format</td><td><font color=#4444cc>All features available with log format (b)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>All features available with log format (b)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>All features available with log format (b)</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>All features available with log format (b)</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Works with IIS (W3C) log format</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Need a patch</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Works with personalized log format</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Analyze Web/Ftp/Mail log files</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No/No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No/No</font></td><!-- <td>NA<font color=#660000>No/No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Update of statistics from</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Command line (CLI) and/or<br>a browser (CGI)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Command line (CLI) and/or<br>a browser (CGI)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Command line</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Command line (CLI) and/or<br>a browser (CGI)</font><br>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Scheduler</td><td>External (crontab, windows task manager)</td><td>External (crontab, windows task manager)</td><td>External (crontab, windows task manager)</td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td>Built-in</td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Internal reverse DNS lookup</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>DNS cache file</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Static and dynamic</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Static </font><font color=#660000>or</font> <font color=#4444cc>dynamic</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Static </font><font color=#660000>or</font> <font color=#4444cc>dynamic</font></td><!-- <td>NA</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (per update, or custom)</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Process logs spitted by load balancing systems</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report number of "human" visits</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (Sessions)</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report unique "human" visitors</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (Visitors)</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report session duration</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for visits</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Visits not supported</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td>?</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Statistics for visits are based on</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Not supported</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Statistics for unique visitors are based on</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Not supported</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Not supported</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Client IP / Cookie<br>
    Custom *****</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report countries</td><td><font color=#4444cc>From IP location<br>or domain name</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Domain name</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Domain name</font></td><!-- <td>?</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>From IP location<br>or domain name</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report regions (US and Canada states)</td><td>Need <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/perl?rId=awstats"><font style="font: 11px arial,helvetica,verdana">Maxmind Regions</font></a> database</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><br>GeoLite City included</td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report cities and major countries regions</td><td>Need <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/perl?rId=awstats"><font style="font: 11px arial,helvetica,verdana">Maxmind Cities</font></a> database</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><br>GeoLite City included</td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report ISP</td><td>Need <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/perl?rId=awstats"><font style="font: 11px arial,helvetica,verdana">Maxmind ISP</font></a> database</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td>Need <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/perl?rId=awstats"><font style="font: 11px arial,helvetica,verdana">Maxmind ISP</font></a> database</td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report Organizations name</td><td>Need <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/perl?rId=awstats"><font style="font: 11px arial,helvetica,verdana">Maxmind Org</font></a> database</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td>Need <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/perl?rId=awstats"><font style="font: 11px arial,helvetica,verdana">Maxmind Org</font></a> database</td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report hosts</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report WhoIs informations on hosts</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report authenticated users</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report/Filter robots (nb detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes (403**)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes / Yes</font> <font color=#660000>(8**)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No/No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes (250**)</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report/Filter worms (nb of families detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes (5)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No / No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No/No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes (4)</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report rush hours</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report days of week</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report most often viewed pages</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report entry pages</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report exit pages</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for entry/exit pages</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Entry/Exit not supported</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td>?</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Detection of CGI pages as pages (and not just hits)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Only if prog ends by a defined value</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Only if prog ends by a defined value</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report pages by directory</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report pages with last access time/average size</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No/No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Dynamic filter on hosts/pages/referers report</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report web compression statistics (mod_gzip,mod_deflate)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td>?</td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report file types</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report by file size</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report OS (nb detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (46)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><font color=#660000> (29)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No (0)</font></td><!-- <td>?</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report browsers (nb detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (121*)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><font color=#660000> (9*)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><font color=#660000> (4*)</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><font color=#660000> (<20*)</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (~20*) </font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report details of browsers versions</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Major and minor versions</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Major versions by default,<br>minor with SUBBROW option</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Major an minor versions</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Major and minor versions</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Major and minor versions</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report screen sizes</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes &amp; Depths</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report tech supported by browser for Java/Flash/PDF</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report audio format supported by browser for Real/QuickTime/Mediaplayer</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#660000>No/No/No</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report search engines used (nb detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (122***)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes </font><font color=#660000>(24)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No (0)</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><font color=#660000> (<20 ***)</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (67***)</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report keywords/keyphrases used on search engines (nb detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes (118***)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No</font><font color=#660000> (29***)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font>/<font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><font color=#660000> (14***)</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No (<20***)</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes (67***)</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report external refering web page with/without query</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font>/<font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report HTTP Errors</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Report 404 Errors</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Nb + List last date/referer<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>Nb only</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Nb only</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Nb + List last date/referer</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report 'Add to favorites' statistics</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
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  <td align=left>Other personalized reports for miscellanous/marketing purpose</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Daily statistics </td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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  <td align=left>Weekly statistics </td>
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
  <!-- <td>?</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Monthly statistics </td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
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<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Yearly statistics </td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
</tr>
<tr align=center>
  <td align=left>Custom date range </td>
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
  <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td>
  <!-- <td>?</td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td>
</tr>
<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Benchmark with no DNS lookup in lines/seconds<br>(full features enabled, with XLF format, cygwin Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz)</td><td><font color=#660000>5200****</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>39000****</font></td><td><font color=#660000>12000****</font></td><!-- <td>NA<br>No program to run</td> -->
  <td>Not calculated</td>
</tr>
<tr align=center><td align=left>Benchmark with DNS lookup in lines/seconds<br>(full features enabled, with XLF format, cygwin Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>80****</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>80****</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>80****</font></td><!-- <td>NA<br>No program to run</td> -->
  <td>Not calculated</td>
</tr>
<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Analyzed data save format (to use with third tools)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Structured text file or XML</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Text files with OUTPUT option</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Flat text file</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>Not possible</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#660000>Flat text file</font>/<font color=#4444cc>MySQL</font></td>
</tr>
<tr align=center><td align=left>Export statistics to PDF</td><td>Experimental</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#660000>No<br>
   HTML (static/email) &amp; CSV</font></td>
</tr>
<tr align=center bgcolor=#EEEEEE><td align=left>Graphical statistics in one page / several / or frames</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No/No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No</font></td><!-- <td><font color=#660000>No</font>/<font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes</font></td> -->
  <td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes/Yes</font></td>
</tr>
</table>

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<font style="font: 8pt arial,helvetica,verdana">
    * This number is not really the number of browsers detected. All browsers (known and unknown) can be detected by products
    that support user agent listing (AWStats,Analog,Webalizer,Sawmill). The 'browser detection feature' and number is the number of known browsers for which different
    versions/ids of same browser are grouped by default in one browser name.<br>
  <br>
    ** AWStats can detect robots visits: All robots among the most common are detected, list is in <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/all.txt">robotslist.txt</a> (250Kb). Products that are not able to do this give you false information, above all if your site
      has few visitors. For example, if you're site was submitted to all famous search engines, robots can make 500 visits a month, to find updates or to see if your site is still online.
      So, if you have only 2000 visits a month, products with no robot detection capabilities will report 2500 visits (A 25% error !). AWStats will report 500 visits from robots and 2000 visits from human visitors.Sawmill Analytics uses a &quot;currently active&quot; list of robots based on the <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/db.html" target="_blank">robotstxt.org</a> database.<br>
  <br>
    *** AWStats has url syntax rules for the most popular search engines (that's the 'number detected').
    Those rules are updated with AWStats updates.
    But AWStats has also an algorithm to detect keywords of unknown search engines with unknown url syntax rules. Sawmill uses unique syntax to detect 67 search engines, and you can add any number of custom SE's. <br>
  <br>
    **** Most log analyzers have poor (or not at all) robots, search engines, os or browsers
    detection capabilities and less features (no or poor visits count, no filter rules, etc...).<br>
    It is not possible to add all AWStats features to other log analyzers, so don't forget that benchmarks
    results are for 'different features'. For this benchmark, I did just complete Webalizer and Analog robots
    or search engines databases with part of AWStats database. So Webalizer config file was
    completed with this <a href="http://awstats.sourceforge.net/files/webalizeradd.txt">file</a>, Analog config file was
      completed with this <a href="http://awstats.sourceforge.net/files/analogadd.txt">file</a>.
      Note that without this very light add (using default conf file), Webalizer speed is 3 times faster, Analog is 15% faster).<br>
    Benchmark was made on a combined (XLF/CLF) log record on an Athlon 1GHz.<br>
    You must keep in mind that all this times are without reverse DNS lookup. DNS lookup speed depends on your system, network and
    Internet but not on the log analyzer you use. For this reason, DNS lookup is disabled in all log analyzer benchmarks.
    Don't forget that DNS lookup is 95% (even with a lookup cache) of the time used by a log analyzer, so if your host is not
    already resolved in log file and DNS lookup is enable, the total time of the process will be nearly the same whatever
    is the speed of the log analyzer.<br>
  <br>
    ***** Some visitors use a lot of proxy servers to surf (ie: AOL users), this means it's possible that several hosts (with several
    IP addresses) are used to reach your site for only one visitor (ie: one proxy server download the page and 2 other servers download
    all images). Because of this, if stats of unique visitors are made on "Hits", 3 users are reported but it's wrong.
      So AWStats, considers only HTML pages to count unique visitors. This decrease the error (not totally, because
it's always possible that a proxy server download one HTML frame and another one download another frame).</font><font style="font: 8pt arial,helvetica,verdana"> Sawmill Analytics allows you to choose what you define as a visitor - by default the client IP is used, but you can use a cookie (persistant or session) or any custom string, or combination of string from teh log data. <br>
  <br>
    (a) Data were provided by Sawmill company (Graham Smith).<br>
  <br>
    (b) With such log format, there is no user agent information in log file, so some reports are broken. For example, it's not possible
    to make reports on browser or os for (information is not stored in log file). To solve this, use another log format (like the combined format).    
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